hey all -- (hope you don't mind, jason, but I thought this might be of interest to the gang....) Jason Young writes a response to my article in the current...
barry brake
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Apr 11, 2000 3:35 am
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Since my two children are about to change schools, moving probably from great schools to at best mediocre ones, this essay in the current Newsweek caught my...
Paul Brake
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Apr 11, 2000 10:14 pm
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hey - <<It leaves me wondering if postmodernism isn't (for most people) a lazy alternative to coming up with something new. >> True, but. We have to keep in...
barry brake
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Apr 12, 2000 4:05 am
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sorry-- I sent the wrong version!! here's the complete one: <<It leaves me wondering if postmodernism isn't (for most people) a lazy alternative to coming up...
barry brake
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Apr 12, 2000 6:10 am
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admitting my bias at the outset, perhaps nowhere is the effect of postmodernism felt most poignantly than on theological thinking. I would agree that...
Patrick Lafferty
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Apr 12, 2000 2:23 pm
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in the wake of even yet still more handwringing about Columbine -- most of it still missing the point... ...
barry brake
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Apr 22, 2000 5:30 am
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an amusing line from a review of Edward Norton's new movie: Director Mike Figgis is generating a lot of buzz with "Time Code," a film shot live in real time...
barry brake
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Apr 24, 2000 8:00 am
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an interesting interview with Edward O Wilson, the eminence grise of environmentalism -- part a corny endorsement of "humanist religion" and part an excellent...
barry brake
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Apr 27, 2000 12:22 pm
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hey - this story appeared in George Magazine. I just copied it over to my site so it won't be in the annoying xml format. Fascinating! It tells the story of...
barry brake
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May 13, 2000 9:23 am
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here's an article by tim bissell about why literary destiny -- the idea that good literature will rise to the top no matter what critics and audiences of the...
barry brake
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May 17, 2000 1:21 pm
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hey -- There's a group called Redefining Progress, on whose website you can take the "ecological footprint" test. The idea is this: there's a certain amount...
barry brake
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Jun 7, 2000 4:01 am
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paul brake writes: << By the way, when did we collectively decide that now that we have reached this point in our evolution, that we should now intervene in ...
barry brake
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Jun 8, 2000 7:17 am
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hey -- I just got an email from one of my kids, and its substance was a high school graduation speech. She wasn't the valedictorian, but she decided to write...
barry brake
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Jun 8, 2000 7:23 am
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a nice bit of opinion from the dallas morning news about the recent supreme court decision on school prayer. considering that people usually turn their brains...
barry brake
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Jun 23, 2000 11:18 am
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hey - here's an article from southerner.net -- a great bit of investigative journalism by fetzer mills, about the flooding in north carolina. the irresponsible...
barry brake
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Jun 26, 2000 9:28 am
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B Why the silence on your "Mother Church's" decision to kick out female preachers? I would have expected hot and heavy debates on this subject. Cousin, Tim...
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Jun 26, 2000 9:52 pm
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hey, tim -- ... well, for me it isn't much of a matter of debate. Every two years the southern baptist convention meets and decides to make a big embarrassing ...
barry brake
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Jun 27, 2000 12:38 am
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Well said, Barry! I think is is *not* well understood, even for staunch Baptists, that the resolutions generated at the conventions are non-binding, and that...
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Jun 28, 2000 3:40 pm
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Dear Barry and Others: If the Virgin Mary descended from heaven to attend the Southern Baptist Convention, would they tell her that she is unqualified to be a...
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Jun 29, 2000 3:44 pm
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... probably. (although, not being catholic, there would be no vested interest in preserving the fiction that she remained a virgin -- Jesus did, after all,...
barry brake
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Jun 29, 2000 6:37 pm
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While we're all out playing golf, camping, cooking out with family, going to the swim club or lake, or whatever else we do on the holiday tomorrow, wouldn't...
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Jul 3, 2000 9:35 pm
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don't know if you're aware of this development in the news, but it's one of those "unseen impact" things. from tidbits. -- barry . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....
barry brake
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Jul 4, 2000 8:59 am
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Rich I read the Jacoby column and pinned it on the bulletin board. Very impressive piece. Tim...
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Jul 6, 2000 2:37 pm
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a friend passes this along... -- barry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . July 2, 2000 Michael Kelley Commentary, Memphis Commercial Appeal DECLARATION...
barry brake
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Jul 8, 2000 3:50 am
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This is an interesting essay about the future of computing and the Internet. Any regular slashdot readers (http://www.slashdot.org) will probably have already...
Aaron
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Jul 8, 2000 7:10 pm
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B I guess Jeff Jacoby (Boston Globe columnist) took us all in, didn't he! He has been suspended for four months without pay from the Globe. Why do these ...
Wtcweaver@...
Jul 9, 2000 2:43 am
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Too bad. I didn't know about Jacoby's suspension. I could see the G. Hildreath (whatever his name was)stuff being junk, spread aimlessly by email. But you'd...
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Jul 11, 2000 4:14 pm
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hey -- here's an interesting article from the hartford advocate about the practice of neurofeedback -- related to biofeedback, where gizmos that are hooked up...
barry brake
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Jul 26, 2000 1:20 pm
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That is an interesting article, and I'm not at all surprised by the experiences and good results people are having. Some of the resistance in the field may be...
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Jul 27, 2000 6:15 pm
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The fact is that you and I already use energy from "alternative" (that is, not fossil fuel) sources. Here's a handy quiz -- ten questions -- from enn to see...
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